Insights and Stories on Cereals

Prairie spring wheat bids firm

Nov. 23, 2015 at 6:13 pm CST

CNS Canada — Cash spring wheat bids across Western Canada generally saw some improvement during the week ended Friday, as basis levels saw some improvements at many locations. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were steady to up by as much as C$3 per tonne during the week, […]

Stronger demand for minor feeds reflected in oats futures

Nov. 19, 2015 at 5:13 pm CST

By Jade Markus

Prairie wheat bids ebb lower

Nov. 16, 2015 at 7:28 pm CST

By Dave Sims

Building a 137 bushel CPS crop

Nov. 13, 2015 at 9:15 am CST

By Lee Hart

Minogue: Campaigning heats up Sask. commodity board elections

Nov. 10, 2015 at 7:23 pm CST

By Leeann Minogue

Prairie wheat bids mixed

Nov. 9, 2015 at 7:49 pm CST

CNS Canada — Cash wheat bids across Western Canada saw some minor adjustments over the week ended Friday, with the general trend seeing strengthening bids in the eastern Prairies and a softer tone in parts of Alberta. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices saw only minor revisions on […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Drought to shrivel Ukrainian wheat harvest in 2016

Nov. 2, 2015 at 1:26 pm CST

Kiev — Severe drought across half of Ukraine has hit winter sowing and could sharply reduce the country’s 2016 wheat harvest, a senior state weather forecaster said on Monday. The drought, in which the central Dnipropetrovsk region suffered its driest autumn in 50 years, could lead to a 20 per cent […]

By Pavel Polityuk Reuters

Feed Grains: IGC raises world grain production estimate

Oct. 30, 2015 at 10:11 am CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg – Following are a few highlights in the Canadian and world feed grains markets on Thursday, October 29. – CBOT corn futures were higher on Thursday, with the December contract up four cents, at US$3.8000 per bushel, as solid weekly export demand provided some support. […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Black Sea in it for the long haul

Oct. 29, 2015 at 1:36 pm CDT

Black Sea wheat exports are projected at an all-time high this year, and there is good reason to have confidence in this forecast. During the 2015/16 marketing year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that the states of the former Soviet Union excluding Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia (FSU-12) will […]

By Karen Braun

Oats steady and low, but price-wise the worst is over

Oct. 28, 2015 at 10:14 am CDT

Manitoba’s oat market is sitting low and stagnant, but since the commodity traditionally tracks corn futures, prices aren’t likely to depreciate further, says a U.S. analyst. “I think Manitoba farmers were expecting a lot better and Saskatchewan farmers were expecting a lot worse, but really when the combines got in […]

By Jade Markus